Grantee tags Activism

Coal Cocked

Bernofsky, Gene

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Coal Cocked is an advocacy film meant to help stop Arch Coal from strip mining 1.3 billion tons of coal in the Tongue River and Powder River Basins of Montana. Read More

Empowering Youth Mural Project

The Seed House~Casa de la Semilla

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Community Engaged public art project, a catalyst of cultural inquiry and relational aesthetics in Kansas, with the objective of creating interactive environments in which people come together, re-engaged as participant of their own lives. Read More

Fracking Photographs (2014)

Merolla, Brandi

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

I illustrate the many dangers associated with the entire fracking production process in my staged photographs, telling big stories with little figures. These vintage figurines are now living in an industrial nightmare just like many Americans. Read More

Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of Resistance

Rosenberg Fund for Children

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

On Sunday, June 16, 2013, the RFC will commemorate the 60th anniversary of Ethel and Julius Rosenbergs’ executions with a benefit event at The Town Hall in New York City starring Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, and Cotter Smith. More info at www.rfc.org. Read More

The Land of Orange Groves & Jails

Branfman, Judy

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

In "The Land of Orange Groves & Jails," LA’s infamous free speech and labor battles set the stage for aunt Yetta's 1929 Supreme Court case for flying a red flag at a summer camp – she helped lay the foundation for our right to protest and dissent. Read More

Living Concert Series

Mad haPPy

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Sustainable Living Concert Series, now shortened to Living Concert Series was actually inspired by the stated purpose of the Puffin and Puffin West Foundations in the funding of projects that use Art to cultivate a progressive cultural vision. Read More

FOR PROFIT

Calafato, Aaron

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Aaron Calafato's FOR PROFIT is a vibrant solo-portrayal of “the exploitation of the American college student,” & told through the lens of an unwilling admission adviser. The play has been performed 43 times in 6 States this year. Read More

“Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juarez”

Arroyo, Andrea

Year Grant Awarded: 2009

“Flor de Tierra, Homage to the Women of Juárez” ia a project in progress of 400 drawings in tribute to the victims of femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Part of the exhibit "Raza con A" at NYU's Wagner Gallery. Read More